Matthew Elliott

Matthew Elliott (1739-7 May 1814) was a colonel of the British Army who led a band of Tories and Native Americans during the American Revolutionary War against the patriots along with Alexander McKee and Simon Girty.

Biography
Matthew Elliott was born in 1739 in County Donegal, Ireland to a Scots-Irish family. In 1761, Elliott immigrated to Pennsylvania during the French and Indian War, and he served as a captain in the British Indian Department during the war against the Indians on the frontier. Elliott married a Shawnee woman and became sympathetic towards Indians, and in 1778 Elliott fled to Detroit with Alexander McKee and Simon Girty to join the Indians against the patriots during the American Revolutionary War. From 1790 to 1795, he served in the Indian Department and superintendent from 1795 to 1798. From 1801 to 1812, he represented Essex in the legislative assembly, and he led the 1st Essex Militia during the War of 1812, taking Fort Detroit in the first battle of the war. Elliott would go on to fight at the battle of Moraviantown and the battle of Black Rock, and he died in Burlington, Ontario in 1814.